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Interim measures

Meaning and relationship to your legal situation.

What it means

Interim decisions intended to protect the purposes of proceedings or the persons affected. They require a legal basis, justification and proportionality and do not automatically determine the trial’s outcome.

Legal reference

Spanish Criminal Procedure Act · art. 502, art. 503, art. 544 bis, art. 544ter

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